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Free Speech, Poland’s Law and the Holocaust

We should reconsider Holocaust tourism to countries like Poland that support some aspects of Holocaust denial.

Feb. 15, 2018 5:27 p.m. ET

In an otherwise brilliant piece (“Poland Seeks to Censor History,” op-ed, Feb. 6), Alan Dershowitz suggests that Germans chose to build death camps in occupied Poland because they couldn’t have killed Jews “without the active assistance of many Poles . . . incited by generations of anti-Semitic church sermons.” The Germans’ “localization” choice had nothing to do with anti-Semitism but with the geographical distribution of Jews living in Europe. Poland, with three million (six times more than in Germany), had the largest Jewish population in Europe. Moreover, in countries located in proximity to Auschwitz there were 2.8...